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Every chapter is a short story.

Whale hunting on the Volunteer in 1858.

Hinduism - that most plural, inclusive, eclectic and expansive of faiths.

Starts slow - 10 chapters in, and 2/3'rds of the book are the remaining 7 chapters.

The March on Washington, August 28'th 1963.

5:24 CST to Thane: "Two days seem like two years in Mumbai."

"To see yourself once in a mirror is to live a life fully"

"Short stories can be like a wave of happiness that comes for a moment, creates this lingering feeling in your heart and goes away."

To the Bauls a temple or a shrine has little value: it is just a way for the priests to make money and to mislead people. The body is the true temple, the true mosque, the true church.

Tara means “star” in Sanskrit. The modern English word “star” and “Tara” are almost certainly linked through a common Indo-European root, via the Persian Sitara, the Greek Aster and the Latin Stella, all of which have the same meaning. It is even possible that the modern Catholic cult of Our Lady Stella Maris, Star of the Sea, may be part of the same tradition.

"Before you drink from a skull,” said Manisha Ma Bhairavi, “you must first find the right corpse.”